I've been locked inside that house all the while You hold the key
And I've been dying to get out and that might be the death of me
And even though, there's no way to in knowing where to go, promise I'm going because
I gotta get outta here
I'm stuck inside this rut that I fell into by mistake
I gotta get outta here
And I'm begging You, I'm begging You, I'm begging You to be my escape
~Be My Escape - Relient K
"No way! I refuse!" Kukai complained for the hundredth time that morning. Nagihiko had arranged for Kukai and Tadase to meet him in the computer lab before school began. They were alone, and Nagihiko was trying to explain his experiment the them, if Kukai would shut up long enough for him to get a sentence out.
"Come on Kukai." Nagihiko tried to persuade him politely first, then he'd move to threats if necessary.
"No! Every time you use me as one of your lab rats, nothing good ever happens to me!" It was true, Kukai had participated in many of Nagihiko's experiments before, and... well, let's just say last time there was a small fire, on Kukai's clothes.
"What exactly are you testing?" Tadase asked curiously, he had never been asked to help in an experiment before, so he wasn't sure what to expect. By Kukai's reaction though, he didn't set his hopes too high.
"Let's call it, animal behavior." Nagihiko answered thinking of the best way to describe it, without giving his intentions away.
"Animal behavior? Like rabbits?" Kukai asked, suddenly perking with interest. Animals were fine with him, but... maybe he should not get involved with animals in case Nagihiko ended up making them attack him or something.
"Not exactly," Nagihiko admitted, relieved that Kukai was starting to listen to him, "Though they're as dumb as rabbits," he muttered under his breath low enough to not be heard.
"Then what?" Kukai asked, just as confused as ever when it came to Nagihiko's little experiments. He'd say a bunch of technical stuff he didn't understand and then do something that ended badly for him. He knew the drill by now.
Nagihiko smirked at the question, this would definitely get their attention, "I was thinking of testing, Amu." The other two grew their eyes wide. Was he suicidal or something? If it wasn't for Ikuto's sacrifice of distraction, she would have murdered them. Now he wanted to do something to tick her off, even more than she was already with them. "Huh?" was the only thing they could get out.
Nagihiko was enjoying himself now, he had spent some time thinking about what he was going to tell them. All he had to do was be persuasive enough for them to buy it and help him. "I just want to see if anyone can draw out Amu's inner self, so to speak."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Well, we all know Amu isn't, well-"
"Girly?" Kukai suggested, that being the first thing that came to his mind when he thought of a tough Amu that could, and was on the verge of doing so, murder him.
"I was going to say feminine, but you get the idea. I noticed last night she had some "girly" actions when she was nervous, like biting her lip and playing with her hair."
"Hey, I noticed that too." Kukai said proud that he was on the same page as Nagihiko.
"I didn't see much of anything." Tadase answered thinking back to when he had to hide under the table.
"Well, I want to try a controlled experiment to see, how the male species affect Amu's behavior." He read their confused expressions and tried to elaborate more on the idea, "Like, would you expect Amu to be someone who got flustered around guys?"
"Not really." Kukai admitted, he knew girls that hung around him all the time, and Amu was nothing like them. When he tried to imagine Amu as cute and bubbly and screaming all the time, he kind of shuddered at the thought.
"Well, when she's in her environment unaffected, she's the Amu we all know and love. Yet, if we add in our own independent variable, it's likely to cause a change in her as a dependent variable."
"I kind of get what you're saying," Tadase responded nodding his head thinking about how much of a change she really would go through.
"Makes me kind of wish I hadn't slept through most of Biology." Kukai commented, actually finding a use for something he had learned in the class, well, Nagihiko had learned really.
"Alright then, here's what we do-"
"No." Kukai said before he could explain, "This is even more dangerous than before because we're dealing with Amu, so forget it!"
"Fine," Nagihiko said with a smile, no more playing nice, "I heard that World Civilization's test is going to be killer tomorrow. I'm glad I took all those notes, I'm going to need them. What about you Kukai? Don't you need to do well on this test to play on Saturdays game?"
Kukai glared at him, in defeat. He had him, and he needed Nagihiko's help to pass his test. "You win this round." Kukai said with a nod of respect.
"Wait, why isn't Ikuto here?" Tadase asked after trying to remember a time she ever acted girly. He could only think of her yelling, and it was usually at Ikuto.
Nagihiko was afraid they'd ask that, but he was prepared all the same, "He's not going to participate."
"What?!" Kukai asked upset that he was the only one that was off the hook, "Why not?!"
"Because he's harder to persuade than you two are." they both looked at each other and then at Nagihiko, seeming rather offended by the honest comment. "Plus, he only makes Amu mad and start yelling." they couldn't argue with that, that was just a fact.
"So," Kukai started hoping to hurry and get this over with, "What do we do Dr. Fujisaki?"
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"The band got a manager?" Rima asked surprised by all Amu had already told her about her weekend, with a mysterious phone call, the guy's offer to help with her singing, and mostly the fact that the four hottest guys in school were tailing her all the way.
"Yeah, after all the chaos and insanity, he still agreed to be the manager." Amu explained, sighing from exhaustion over the long weekend. Things used to be simple for her, before she transferred to Seiyo High anyway. "Did you forget your lunch?" Amu asked suddenly noticing Rima wasn't eating anything.
"Yes, I was in a hurry this morning." Rima explained brushing her fingers through her hair out of habit.
"Do want some of mine?" Amu had prepared her lunch the night before in an attempt to get all the leftovers out of the fridge. Nothing really went well together, but she thought Rima would want something at least.
"That's alright, I'll get my own." Rima assured her before clearing her throat, "I seemed to have forgotten my lunch today, now I have to go without eating." she said with a voice that sounded as if she were tearing up, Amu almost believed she was crying.
"TAKE MINE! PLEASE! DON'T WORRY! YOU NEED TO EAT!" Suddenly the table was surrounded with a group boys, all offering Rima some lunch. Rima picked the one she preferred and with an angelic smile thanked the boy. He looked as if he were going to faint.
Amu stared at her until all the boys had left and Rima began eating the lunch she was given. "How do you do that?" Amu asked amazed by how she had all those boys wrapped around her finger.
"Years of practice and manipulation." Rima explained to Amu who looked at her in disbelief, "But, I thought you said he lived in your old town." Rima asked getting the conversation back on topic, and away from her.
"Yeah, but his sister works here, and he's going to be staying with her for awhile." Amu explained focusing back on the band. They all gave her such a headache, and with their stupid spying, she felt the need to murder them. "She's a manager at Easter."
"I see, does she work with your father?" Rima asked to receive a shrug from Amu, "No clue, I never really ask him about work much." Amu thought for a moment people shrugging again, "I'm not going to ask anyway, the last thing we need is Ikuto manipulating more people."
Rima looked at Amu questioningly, how could she dislike someone so much? It was always something, he was annoying, he was a jerk, he was a pervert, after listening to her for so long, she had to queston the "heart throb's" character. Before, all Rima knew of Ikuto Tsyumio, was that he was any girl's fanasy cool bad boy type, so she'd heard. Being rich was an added bonus. Now though, Rima had to think he was, well, like any other annoying perverted teenage boy. Though, Rima just had to wonder why he bothered Amu so much? He'd never said more than two words to her, and she was apparently the school angel (not that she really cared if he spoke to her or not), so why does he mess with Amu so much?
"Just out of curiousity," Rima started perking Amu's attention as she used a softer, almost concerned tone, instead of her usual monotone when talking about something that bored her, like this usually, "But, has Ikuto ever threatened to fire your father if you didn't do what he told you to?"
The question stunned Amu for a moment, before she really started thinking about it, "He's implied it, but, no not directly," Amu admitted when she remembered his way of winning their arguments.
"From what you've told me about him, isn't Ikuto kind of an idiot?" Rima asked it as though it were some obvious fact, a statement that would get her hurt by any near by fangirl, but being at an outside lunch table, a good hearing distance away from everyone else, her opinion was safe.
"Yeah?" Amu asked more than stated, where was she going with this?
"Then wouldn't you think he wouldn't be able to come up with something like that?" Rima asked again, as though it were obvious. Amu gave her a questioningly look, until she heard the sighs of many love sick females. "Hello Amu-chan." Amu turned around ready to glare at whoever approached them, when she eyes got wide with confusion. Tadase was smiling down on her with his lunch in his hands.
"Tadase?" Amu asked wonder what he was thinking. Why had he come over to where she was sitting with Rima? Didn't he know how much attention he was bringing to the table, especially when she was trying to hide the fact she was in a band with at least one guy every girl in school practically worshipped?! "What are you doing?"
"I came to join you, do you mind?" Tadase seemingly charming. Amu had never seen this side of him before. Sure she heard girls call him a prince and sweet and everything, but being around him while he was around Kukai and Ikuto, they caused most of the charm to disappear. Now, he looked like he was shining. Amu felt her cheek tint a light pink color just looking at him. She knew he was cute when she first met him, now with this added charm, he seemed more handsome than cute. Amu looked away annoyed that he was bothering her acting that way, and gain back her usual composure, "I guess not."
"Thank you." Tadase responded pleased with himself for catching the blush. He sat down beside Amu feeling Rima staring at him questioningly, "Hello Rima-chan." he greeted her, but it won him no approval. Rima had always been a hard person to please, and it was worse for him in this case, because she was also suspicious of him. What was his motives in joining them for lunch? Plus, she was annoyed that now she was going to have to put up with girls coming up to her and asking about her amazing lunch with the school's prince.
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"And... what was so important I had to see it during my free period?" Ikuto asked Nagihiko annoyed by having to follow him to see something that was a "surprise"... and Ikuto wasn't buying it.
"We're almost there, don't worry," Nagihiko assured him with his usual smile, which seemed a bit more decieving than genuine to Ikuto.
Nagihiko gazed around the room looking for his accomplish at work. He wanted to make sure Ikuto got a good look at him, but by accident, he could already tell Ikuto was getting susupicious. Good thing Kukai and Tadase didn't know what was really going on. "Oh, is it freshman lunch this period?" he asked casually as they began to walk past the courtyard where all the lunch tables were, including the one he was searching for.
Ikuto gave Nagihiko a questioning look, what did he care about the freshman lunch? He noticed Nagihiko glancing over to the tables ocassionally, with what seemed to be a surprised and pleased expression. "What are you staring at?"
Nagihiko smiled at Ikuto and pointed with his thumb over to the table as he continued walking forward. Ikuto glanced over to see his freshmen band members sitting together, enjoying their lunch. This struck Ikuto as odd, he thought Amu didn't want people knowing she was in their band, so why was she eating lunch with Tadase. Not only that, but just the way they were enjoying each other's company. They were sitting beside each other, Tadase smiling at Amu while appearing to tell a joke that made Amu laugh. They seemed to be somehow connected, Ikuto didn't even know they talked outside of regular band practice.
"Our young ones seem to be getting along rather well." Nagihiko commented, snapping Ikuto out of his trance, he hadn't noticed he had stopped walking and was staring at the two, but Nagihiko sure did. He smirked to himself, making a mental note of the subject's response.
"I guess." Ikuto shrugged and began walking again, seeming to care less, as he passed Nagihiko and continued forward. Nagihiko smirked behind him, making another mental note. Strike One.
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"I hate gym." Rima complained to Amu with a pant, as they continued running laps around the track. Amu wasn't a fast runner, but Rima was even slower than she was. She was happy to keep at her pace though, and grateful to her friend for not being a star athlete.
"I know." Amu agreed with a nod. Focussing back on the track ahead, to her surprise, most of the girls were behind them. Amu glanced back to see a lot of girls just barley jogging while they gawked at the field the track ran around. "What are they looking at?"
"The one only upside to this torture." Rima answered pointing at the soccer field that happened to have the boys soccer team practicing on, not the best choice practice time during the girl's gym class. The boys were playing shirts versus skins, for some reason, the school would have jerseys for them if they needed them. Amu saw most of the girls were on the verge of fainting looking at the soccer boys playing shirtless. Rima rolled her eyes at the pathetic girls, but Amu couldn't help looking over at the boys. They seemed to be somewhat focussed on the game, most of them were just flexing their muscles at the girls trying to impress them.
Among the soccer players, Amu noticed a brunnete haired boy that looked rather familiar. It wasn't until he turned her way did she realize it was Kukai. He looked different than he usually did. He was playing on the skins, and she noticed he was toned and tan. Plus he was glistening with sweat, but she could tell it was him from his goofy grin he gave her when he noticed her running. He waved at her once the ball was safely on his opponents side of the field. She could feel herself blushing a little, since he had his shirt off and she noticed his muscles, and waved back sheepishly as she continued to run at a quicker pace as an attempt to get away.
Rima stared at her back for a moment shifting her gaze between her and Kukai. Rima caught his smirk before getting focussed back on the game, which rose her suspicion. First, Tadase chooses to sit at their table just because, and now Kukai was waving at her like they were great friends. Well, Rima expected them to be pretty good friends at this point, and that this shouldn't be anything unusual. Until of course she noticed the three other band members on the bleachers looking bored with themselves. That's when she knew something was going on.
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For Tadase it was a free period, Nagihiko managed to smooth talk his way in and out of the nurse's office, and Ikuto was skipping class as a way to avoid his math test; what else to do other then watch their good friend Kukai at practice? That's what Nagihiko insisted on anyway, with Tadase unusually agreeable with him. That left Ikuto with no other option, well, other than go to class, which he couldn't do. How convinent it was that Amu happened to be in the middle of gym class at the same time. It was hard not to notice Kukai and Amu waving at each other every time she ran another lap.
No one commented on it though, not until near the end of class and Kukai beckoned Amu over. They seemed casual, maybe having a light conversation with mild humor from their smiles, leaning against the low fence that seperated them. "What's up with them?" Ikuto asked after the long silence. "I thought she wanted to kill him."
Tadase just shrugged with a light smile playing on his lips, "Who can say?" Ikuto looked with an arched eyebrow, now he could tell he knew something.
"Young love blossoming?" Nagihiko suggested with an amused smile along with Tadase light laughter, "Yeah, sure." he commented sarcastically. Ikuto seeming to ignore them for the moment, and focusing on Amu and Kukai, without any expression. Nagihiko added another mental note satisfied with himself. He was so close now.
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"Amu, do you like alternative music?" Rima asked appearing at Amu's locker at the sound of the final bell. Amu was shocked both by her just popping out of nowhere and that she would ask that question.
"Yeah, I guess so, why do you ask?"
"I didn't," Rima answered with her usual tone and expression as if it were normal, but Amu looked at her confused and so she explained, "Some guy in my class asked me to ask you. Apparently he has some CDs he has to get rid of."
"Oh, really?" Amu asked still confused as to why she would care to deliver the message, Rima wasn't one to do something that seemed too troublesome. "Who?"
"His name's Kyo, and he said, if you're interested, to just met him outside the gym after school."
"And you're just telling me this now?" Amu asked with a sweat drop at Rima's casual attitude. Amu sighed before grabbing her books and clothes to change into, "I'll see you later Rima." Rima nodded her good bye and Amu took off running in the direction of the gym.
"Amu-chan!" Amu stopped and turned around to see Nagihiko at his locker beckoning her over. Amu gave him a confused look before walking over to him, "Where are you off to?" he asked curiously, since he was vaguely sure she wouldn't be running to the van or anything.
"I got to meet a guy about some CDs before I leave," Amu explained glancing at the clock on the wall to see she had a few minutes before the guy would leave, "I'm going to be a little late to the van."
"Don't worry, we'll wait on you." Nagihiko assured her with friendliness, "We wouldn't get much practice without our singer there."
"You guys practiced without a singer for a long time."
"Sure, but we got distracted all the time. Now with you keeping Ikuto and Kukai focused, we get more done." Nagihiko told her laughing lightly remembering the past few practices where Amu used violence as a way of communication. Amu smiled with him, her cheeks a light tint of pink from the memory. She like Nagihiko's smile, it always seemed genuiene, and with his hair, it made him look just like a girl (she would never tell him though, it seemed like a compliment to her, but she wasn't sure what he'd take it as). She still thought he was a bit on the insane side, or at least hung out with too many insane people to appear sane, but it was just hard not to like Nagihiko.
"I'll meet you at the van in a few minutes," Amu said her goodbye taking off before she ran out of time. Nagihiko waved at her back as she ran off. It wasn't long until he felt a hand on his shoulder. "Nagi, my friend."
"This can't be good." Nagihiko comment with a casual tone, but he wasn't liking the fact that Ikuto had him in his grasp.
"Let's chat." Ikuto said with an amused tone and expression as he turned Nagihiko around in the opposite direction, "I'm talking to you two behind the lockers as well." he added making Tadase and Kukai appear in the hallway with bafulled expressions, "How does he do that?!" Kukai asked retortically more just to voice a complaint. They were all pushed into the nearest abandoned classroom, Ikuto being the last person inside, shut the door behind him.
"Are we really going to chat?" Tadase asked a little apprehensive to hear the answer. The last time Ikuto said he wanted to "chat" with a guy, he barely made it out alive. "I just want to say, I was forced to do this. I wanted nothing to do with it." Kukai said as his last defense, just in case this ended badly.
Ikuto didn't show any emotion that showed anger, in fact, his face was emotionless as he shifted glances between the three of them. "Alright I'll bite, what are you three up to?"
"It's a secret." Kukai answered putting a finger over his lips hoping that Ikuto would leave it at that. Of course Ikuto wasn't buying it, and just looked directly at Nagihiko, who he believed to be the brains of the operation (really it wasn't like there was anyone to choose from). "Explain." Ikuto commanded still looking directly at Nagihiko.
He sighed in defeat, before gaining back his composture, with a smile, answered, "Just a mild experiment."
"Experiment?" Ikuto questioned as if he had never heard the word before, but unfortunately for him, he had. He knew about Nagihiko's experiments, and how he always managed to get Kukai involved. This was the first time Tadase was included as well. Ikuto assumed that this must be over something big and important if he needed three people to operate it. "What kind of experiment?"
"Amu's animal behavior." Kukai answered confidently with a nod. Everyone else just looked at him with a confused expression, "Not exactly." Tadase commented making Kukai glare at him.
"What then?" Ikuto asked looking at Nagihiko again with a glare that was to say, Answer me and be careful what you say. "We were testing Amu's behavior around other people to see if her behavior changed."
Ikuto gave his a confused look, "I just wanted to see Amu act girly." Kukai said as a way it simply to reason for the experiment, Tadase nodding in agreement.
"I see...," Ikuto said trailing on his words, "Now, what's it really for?" he asked giving Nagihiko the same glare.
"We just told you-" Kukai started before Ikuto interrupted, "Haven't you learned by now? He never tells you what the experiment's really for until after you do what he tells you to." Kukai mouth dropped open a little as he gawked at Nagihiko, this information was new to him.
"Is that true?!" he asked with Nagihiko looking away and whistling suspiciously, to conclude the answer was a yes, "Why don't you tell me these things?!"
"Because," Nagihiko started with a sigh, "You can't keep a secret."
"What?!"
"And,-" Nagihiko continued, "For situations like this." he answered pointing at Ikuto. Ikuto kept looking at him, waiting patiently for an answer. "It is over animal behavior," Nagihiko began to explain, "Just..., not Amu's."
"Wait!" Kukai interrupted looking at him in confusion, "We weren't testing Amu?" Nagihiko shook his head as a reply, "Then what what were we doing all day?!"
"Testing, someone else's behavior," Nagihiko explained still feeling Ikuto's stare. "Who?" Ikuto asked not as anxious as before, now he at least knew most of what was going on. Nagihiko just shrugged, "Not important anymore really."
Ikuto looked the three over one last time before feeling satisified enough, "Alright, lets go then."
"We'll have to wait a while on Amu," Nagihiko added as they began to head towards the parking lot.
"Why?"
"She's...," Nagihiko started before thinking of one last test, "Meeting someone outside the gym. She wouldn't tell me much, but I think it's pretty important to her."
Ikuto nodded continuing forward. "We don't have all day. I'll go hurry her up." Ikuto said before heading towards the gym, "Meet you by the van."
"Alright." Nagihiko answered, smirking at Ikuto's back, "And we're back." he mumbled under his breath while the three amegoes kept walking towards the van.
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"Amu Hinamori?" Amu heard someone ask her name when she was just beginning to look for the person Rima was talking about. She saw a boy she recognized in a few of her classes, she assumed this was Kyo.
"Kyo?" she asked just to make sure. He nodded to answer her question and she began to approach him. "Rima told me you had some CDs you were giving away."
"Yeah," he agreed digging through his bag and began pulling out a few CD cases, "They're mostly just mixes of different bands, most are alternative though. Rima said you were into music, so I thought you might want them." he explained handing her the mixed CDs.
"Why are you giving away mixed CDs?" Amu asked curious, she had thought they were albums he got as a gift but didn't want or something. These looked like CDs he mixed together himself.
"I have all those songs saved onto my computer, so I don't need the CDs anymore." he explained with a shrug, "I didn't know many people that had the same taste in music as I did."
"We have the same taste in music?" Amu asked not sure she could agree or not.
"Look through and see." he tempted her. She looked down on the CDs to see that they had some of the songs written on the top of them with blue Sharpie. She smiled at recognition of a few of the songs, Going Under, The Bird and The Worm, Swing Life Away, Stranger, Be My Escape, She Will Be Loved, and laughed at one, "Girl All the Bad Guys Want?" she asked accusingly, he grinned playfully with another shrug.
"What can I say?" Kyo started with Amu laughing lightly, "Hot, bold, confident, badass, I'd say she's my type."
Ikuto was searching for Amu, and he found her... with some guy laughing like they were good friends or something. He saw the mixed CDs in her hands. Even though Amu didn't notice, he could see that looking her over, checking her out. He didn't understand why, but he felt compelled to do something. Why?
"Well, thanks for the music," Amu thanked him politely putting the CDs in her bag, "I got to go."
"Hey." he said, stopping her from running to the bathroom to change, "I was wondering, if tomorrow..., you and I could-" before he could finish, Amu felt herself being lifted off the ground and tossed over a familiar shoulder.
"What the-?!" Amu complained trying to get out of Ikuto's grasp, which she still failed to realize would be impossible for her to do.
"Come on, we got practice, remember?" Ikuto told her and started to walk off. Amu tried hitting his back, even though it was a useless effort of escape, she felt better just to hit him anyway.
"Hey!" she heard Kyo shout at Ikuto in protest. Ikuto turned around enough just to face him, to give him a glare that could as if suggesting it was best for him just to shut up. He had enough sense to do so, and give a look of terror, which made Ikuto smirk with amusement, as he turned around and continued walking.
"Stop tossing me around like a sack of potatoes!"
"You weigh about as much as a sack of potatoes, why not?"
"Ikuto! Put! Me! Down!"
"Yeah, yeah, or you'll murder, blah blah blah."
It wasn't until they made it to the van did realization hit Amu. She never changed into her disguise. Reluctantly, she looked at a group of girl's shocked faces. None of them looked angry pursay, but none of them looked to happy either. Come tomorrow she'd find out what will happen, once they've all recovered from shock. She felt like murdering Ikuto at that moment.
"Wow. You really meant it." Kukai commented as Ikuto put a still squirming Amu down on the ground.
"Let's go already." Ikuto complained getting them to file into the van, all except Nagihiko who was wearing a suspicious smirk at that moment. Ikuto turned to him with another confused expression, "What?"
"Oh, I just discovered my theory was correct." Nagihiko explained his smirk still playing on his lips.
"What do you mean?"
"My subjected proved that a certain emotion of theirs could trigger another, causing mild action without thought." Nagihiko explained giving Ikuto a look, "Want to know who my subject was?" Ikuto didn't say anything, but Nagihiko took it as a sigh to continue, "It was you."
"Me?"
"Yeah," Nagihiko answered with a shrug, "So..., what was my theory?" Ikuto looked at him in confusion as he thought about what they were doing all day, his own behavior, and... Amu. Realization hit him hard! Like a ton of bricks hard. Nagihiko wasn't testing Amu, but him towards Amu. They were trying to make it appear she liked them when Ikuto was around. Then with that last guy. Nagihiko was trying to test Ikuto's behavior when Amu was around other guys, and it was how Nagihiko had predicted it would be... jealousy.
"You sneaky little bastard." Ikuto managed to say, unfazing to Nagihiko's triumphant smirk. Oh how many cards he held, and how he could manipulate Ikuto with them. This was a sweet victory, and a miserable defeat for Ikuto. "You better pray I don't "accidently" crash into something on your side on the van."
"I guess I'll sit next to Amu then." Nagihiko commented before sliding into the van, hoping this realization could bring a little excitement to their lives.
A/N:
Whoa! Long chapter, I'm exhausted XP! Well, I wanted to just get this all in and hurry and update! Sorry for the long wait, I was on vacation with the family, and most of the places we stayed at had no WiFi. Plus, I was on vacation, and I just can't focus on the beach! I'm back home (I've never loved typing inside more than I do now!), but I have to start school (a new high school no doubt) tomorrow XP so I can't update very quickly (I will do so as fast as I can though), because I am one of those annoying people that actually like to study and learn things (yes, feel free to call me a geek). I really love science, as you may be able to tell from the whole experiment thing. This chapter is a bit confusing, but bear with me, the next one will be MUCH better, because the band's going to have some fun! XD Thanks reviewers! You keep me writing, and I know you deserve better chapters, so I'll work at it! :P